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By valorising women’s diverse activities, we may treat their vulnerabilities as strengths and fail to acknowledge the lack of access to income-generating activities for women The 2022-23 Economic Survey (ES) should be credited for acknowledging that official statistics may have inadequately captured the true nature of women’s work in India. This inadequacy affects both how...   Read More

The viability of long-gestation transport projects hinges on rightly projecting future revenue flows. Big Data can help in this. The successive Budgets of the NDA government have emphasised on increased investments to upgrade infrastructure. This is a thrust area in Budget 2023 as well. Roads, transport and the Railways continue to remain in focus, with...   Read More

NCAER Professor and Director of the National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC) at NCAER, Sonalde Desai, who holds a joint appointment as a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland College Park, has been named as a Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In a tradition dating back to 1874,...   Read More

The 2023-24 Union Budget focuses on domestic consumption as the main engine of growth, followed by public investment as the second, albeit smaller, growth engine. Significantly, it has not equally supported private investment or exports as accelerators of economic growth or generators of employment. The Government’s enthusiastic support to domestic demand is both reasonable and...   Read More

The Economic Survey for 2022-23 has presented the customary wealth of information and data pertaining to the Indian economy. It has provided the growth projections for the current year and next year, as well as a medium-term outlook. Simultaneously, it has also further articulated the rationale for those projections and outlooks. All these outputs are...   Read More

NCAER’s White Paper on the “Making India A Global Power House on Farm Machinery Industry” was released by Hon’ble Ms. Shobha Karandlaje, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare.   The focus of this paper is on non-tractor farm machinery because India is already one of the global leaders in tractors. The twin objectives of...   Read More

Many cities in urban India, particularly the metros, are major hotspots of air pollution with a PM 2.5 concentration level ranging above the permissible limits defined by the WHO for most of the year. Since the transport sector is a major source of air pollution in urban India, the Government of India adopted BS-VI emission...   Read More

The IHDS Forum is a monthly update of publications, op-eds and data news based on the India Human Development Survey (IHDS), which was jointly conducted by NCAER and the University of Maryland in two rounds, in 2004-05 and 2011-12. The third round of the project has also been launched and is currently underway.   Click here for...   Read More

In the Review, we summarise the economic and policy developments in India; monitor global developments of relevance to India; and showcase the pulse of the economy through an analysis of high-frequency indicators and the heat map.

The Business Confidence Index is higher than it was a year ago but has softened sequentially The National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), one of India’s premier economic policy research think tanks, carried out the 123rd Round of its Business Expectations Survey (BES) in December 2022, with support from the National Stock Exchange of...   Read More

The sinking of Joshimath or Jyotirmath raises a serious alarm on the sustainability of economic activities, particularly of tourism in various sensitive but highly revered parts of the country. The town has now been declared as a landslide and subsidence-hit zone as well as not suitable for habitation. While it is located in a seismic...   Read More

The global environment seems to have turned less hostile as inflation rates have peaked in advanced economies and oil prices have stabilised at lower levels. So capital flows have started returning to India, the exchange rate is bouncing back and foreign reserves are being rebuilt. Year 2022 turned out to be a rocky one for...   Read More